| Year |
History |
| 167X |
Approximate time of removal from
Illinois to Nebraska as a result of the domino effect of the Beaver
Wars, mentioned as Mahas, a wandering nation on a Marwuette map
which placed them just east of the Missouri in central Iowa |
| 1700 |
Reference in Beaurain's "Memoire",
Pierre Charles le Seur without visiting tribe recorded their location on
the Big Sioux River, southeast of present Sioux Falls in South Dakota
and with a population of 4,000 |
| 1735 |
First Omaha village west of the
Missouri established on Bow Creek in present Cedar County, Nebraska |
| 1755 |
Village establish near present
location of tribe; Ponca fissioned form the Omaha |
| 1804 |
Celebrated a Whe'wahchee
or dance of thanksgiving, the first pow wow ever, witnessed by Lewis and
Clark |
| 1875 |
Ponca signed paper agreeing to
move to Indian Territoryu |
| 1876 |
Inspection of Osage Reservation
in Indian Territory unsatisfactory to Standing Bear and other Ponca
leaders, returned to Nebraska |
| 1877 |
Tribe forced to walk to Indian
Territory to Quapaw Reservation, 25% of tribe remained in Nebraska, 25%
losses during move |
| 1879 |
One third of tribe died of
malaria, son of Standing Bear died, chief returned to Omaha to bury his
son, Standing Bear arrested by Gen Crook and interred at Fort Omaha,
acquitted in trail, confiscation of Ponca land determined illegal, 255
could remain in Nebraska |
| 1881 |
Ponca received land claims in
Ft. Laramie Treaty |
| 1890 |
Some Nebraska lands allotted to
Ponce |
